In a jailhouse interview with The Post yesterday, the charismatic and apparently deluded accused rapist claimed the alleged attack was merely a romantic encounter in Riverside Park with a lovely Russian tourist.

“We made love,” Akassy proudly boasted with a grin on his face in the Manhattan Detention Center.

Akassy, also charged with trespassing for sleeping on a cardboard cot outside a woman’s bathroom and terrorizing other Upper West Side women, is confused about the rape charges.

He recalled how the two met at the upscale Time Warner Center last Sunday and decided to rendezvous two days later in Riverside Park.

He tells an idyllic tale of sitting on the grass and feeding her cheese and Shiraz.

He then swore that what cops say was a forced sexual act was, in fact, consensual.

After she ran from him following the alleged rape, he somehow expected her to return and claims he even held a cab at 72nd Street and West End.